If the output looks something like java version '1.8.x', you are good to go. To check your java version by open your terminal application and run the following command: java -version Unlike C-compiled programs such as Samtools, Picard cannot simply be added to your PATH, so we recommend setting up an environment variable to act as a shortcut.įor the tools to run properly, you must have Java 1.8 installed. Open the downloaded package and place the folder containing the jar file in a convenient directory on your hard drive (or server). The file name will be of the format picard-tools-x.y.z.zip. You can download a zipped package containing the jar file from the Latest Release project page on Github.

The Picard command-line tools are provided as a single executable jar file. The Picard toolkit is open-source under the MIT license and free for all uses. For developers, the source code, building instructions and implementation/development resources are available on GitHub. Note that the information on this page is targeted at end-users. See especially the SAM specification and the VCF specification.

These file formats are defined in the Hts-specs repository. Picard is a set of command line tools for manipulating high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data and formats such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF. View the Project on GitHub broadinstitute/picard A set of command line tools (in Java) for manipulating high-throughput sequencing (HTS) data and formats such as SAM/BAM/CRAM and VCF.

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